Cook, Jonathan – writer and journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, and winner of 2011 Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. His latest books are Israel and the Clash of Civilizations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East (Pluto Press) and Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair (Zed Books). His website is www.jonathan-cook.net.

Cook, William – professor of English at the University of La Verne in southern California and author of The Rape Of Palestine: Hope Destroyed, Justice Denied, Tracking Deception: Bush Mid-East Policy and The Chronicles of Nefaria. He is editor of Media with a Conscience News. He can be contacted via his website.

Davidson, Lawrence – professor of history at West Chester University. He is the author of numerous books, including Islamic Fundamentalism and America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood. An archive of his work is available here.

Engler, Yves – Montréal writer and political activist. He has been dubbed “Canada’s version of Noam Chomsky” (Georgia Straight), “one of the most important voices on the Canadian left today” (Briarpatch magazine), and “part of that rare but growing group of social critics unafraid to confront Canada’s self-satisfied myths” (Quill & Quire). His seven books have been praised by Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, William Blum, Rick Salutin and many others.

Forer, Richard – former member of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, AIPAC and author of Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion – A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict.

Gordon, Neve – member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and author of Israel’s Occupation; can be contacted through his website.

Kanj, Jamal – author of Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America (Garnet Publishing, UK). His articles can be read at www.jamalkanj.com

Littlewood, Stuart – author of the book Radio Free Palestine, which tells the plight of the Palestinians under occupation.

Peebles, Graham – an artist, writer and director of The Create Trust, a UK-registered charity he founded in 2006. He has run education projects and teacher training programmes in Palestine, India and Ethiopia. A long-time student of the Ageless Wisdom Teachings and eastern philosophy, he is currently writing a series of essays on education.

Stuart, Laura – British human rights activist. She visited the Gaza Strip twice in 2009 as part of the Viva Palestina humanitarian missions, was on board the Turkish aid ship Mavi Marmara that was attacked by Israeli state terrorists in May 2010 and joined the humanitarian land convoy to the Strip in October 2010.